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Old 03-08-2017, 10:13 PM   #25510
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
I'm reading Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana's classic account of signing on as a sailor on a merchant ship for a trip from Boston around the Horn to California and back in the 1830s; it's terrific. I'm so regretful when I think of how my father loved this book and the Patrick O'Brian books (he did his service in the Coast Guard) and I dismissed them as not of interest to me. I'd love to share them with him now.
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I tried reading this last year, but got bogged down during their interminable stay off the California coast gathering cow hides.
This was one of my favourite books from my teens, discovered as I was looking for something to read after I'd devoured the Hornblower books. (And LONG before O'Brian was writing. Even before Alexander Kent was available in the US.) I haven't re-read it recently, but might be worth considering.
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